KEEPING WATCH PB

KEEPING WATCH PB

Author: Michael O'Malley

Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)

Published: 1996-04-17

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Focusing on the period from 1820 to 1920, Keeping Watch details the far-reaching changes in American society brought about by the transition from natural to mechanical sources of time -- from farmers' almanacs and religious formulations of time to regional time zones, synchronized watches, and factory punch clocks. Michael O'Malley show how the pressures of industrialization, the emergence of the telegraph, and the spread of railroads led to a demand for uniform, consistent schedules. Chronicling particular communities' resistance to standard time and, later, daylight saving time, Keeping Watch also examines the cut-and-paste manipulation of "real time" in motion pictures. The cumulative impact of these technological changes, O'Malley argues, was momentous, creating a harsher ethic of punctuality and an unprecedented degree of labor regimentation. Book jacket.


Keep Watch with Me

Keep Watch with Me

Author: Michael T. McRay

Publisher: Abingdon Press

Published: 2019-10-01

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1501876341

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Keep Watch With Me: An Advent Reader for Peacemakers is a collaborative daily devotional featuring diverse contributors: black, white, LGBTQ, Latinx, Palestinian, incarcerated, Native American, Australian, Americans, Irish, South African, clergy, laity, activists, authors, organizers, and more. The season of Advent, as the church prepares for the birth of Christ, is a penitential season of reckoning with our need and the needs of the world. Keep Watch With Me offers stories, reflections, prayers, and spiritual practices to sustain and challenge the faith of those who work for justice and peace, and long for the coming of God with us.


Keeping Watch

Keeping Watch

Author: Laurie R. King

Publisher: Bantam

Published: 2003-03-04

Total Pages: 445

ISBN-13: 0553897268

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Acclaimed as one of the most original talents to emerge in the last decade, award-winning author Laurie R. King returns to Folly Island to deliver her most stunning achievement yet--a breathtaking novel of suspense that explores the very essence of good and evil. Allen Carmichael came back from Vietnam a lifetime ago--but only now was he ready to return home. For years, he’s lived on the fringes of the law, using a soldier’s skills to keep watch over those too young to defend themselves. Some consider him nothing but a kidnapper for hire--the best in the business; others call him a hero. His specialty has been rescuing children from abusive parents and escorting them to loving homes. But after twenty-five years, he is ready to take on his final case--a case that could destroy him. The boy’s name is Jamie: He believes his father is going to kill him. Allen is convinced that the twelve-year-old is right and devises a strategy to save him. His last job done, Allen heads back to Folly Island, where he plans to settle into a quiet life. But not long after his return, a small plane piloted by the boy’s father’s crashes, leaving behind debris--but no body. Now it is up to Allen to resolve whether Jamie’s father is dead or alive--and to make sure Jamie himself stays out of harm’s way. But a series of ominous events leads Allen to question whether Jamie’s father is really the enemy after all. Or if the real threat is far more unspeakable...and the killer unimaginable. Riveting, harrowing, and unforgettable, Keeping Watch takes psychological suspense to its most dizzying heights and proves again why Laurie R. King has been called by both readers and critics an undisputed master of suspense.


Keeping Watch

Keeping Watch

Author: Jane M. Choate

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2014-10-01

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 1460341287

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

When a senator’s daughter is targeted by a killer, her bodyguard will stay close day and night to protect her in this uplifting romantic suspense novel. Despite the threats against her life, Danielle Barclay thinks having a bodyguard looking after her around the clock is unnecessary. Or at least that’s what she tells herself before meeting Jake Rabb. A former Delta Force soldier, Jake is used to rope-lining from helicopters into enemy territory—not following around a senator’s daughter. The lovely deputy district attorney is as strong-willed as she is brave, especially when the escalating danger assures Jake that her stalker means business. As the attacks become personal, Danielle finally puts her trust—and her feelings—on the line with her defender. But when the stalker gets closer than anyone could have imagined, Jake and Danielle will need all their courage and faith to survive.


Keeping Watch

Keeping Watch

Author: W. W. Jacobs

Publisher: The Floating Press

Published: 2017-03-01

Total Pages: 17

ISBN-13: 1776678354

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"Keeping Watch" is another in a series of W. W. Jacobs' tales that are the reminiscences of an on-duty nightwatchman. In this story, the guard catches a glimpse of a passing couple and is reminded of his own run-in with a seemingly innocent young woman whose coy beauty concealed a secret.


Keeping Watch

Keeping Watch

Author: Kathryn A. Sletto

Publisher: Borealis Books

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780873517706

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A middle-aged woman leaves her day job and becomes a full-time shepherdess, raising a wild mix of animals with equally wild personalities.


Keeping Watch in Babylon

Keeping Watch in Babylon

Author: Johannes Haubold

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-05-07

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 9004397760

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This volume of collected essays, the first of its kind in any language, investigates the Astronomical Diaries from ancient Babylon, a collection of almost 1000 clay tablets which, over a period of some five hundred years (6th century to 1st century BCE), record observations of selected astronomical phenomena as well as the economy and history of Mesopotamia and surrounding regions. The volume asks who the scholars were, what motivated them to ‘keep watch in Babylon’ and how their approach changed in the course of the collection’s long history. Contributors come from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including Assyriology, Classics, ancient history, the history of science and the history of religion. "Babylon has always exerted a magical charm on everyone who has been told of its splendour and grandeur. Nobody who has succumbed to this charm, whether he is a layman who just wants to browse a little in his search for old secrets, or a scholar who wants to inform himself about the latest academic research, will be disappointed by this volume." - Erlend Gehlken, Universität Frankfurt/Main, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review February 2 (2020)


Code of Federal Regulations

Code of Federal Regulations

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1964

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Special edition of the Federal Register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect ... with ancillaries.